Essay: BAY OF PIGS REVISITED: Lessons from a Failure

LATE in 1962, White House Aide Theodore C. Sorensen relayed to President
John Kennedy a request that a "distinguished author" be
allowed to see the files on the U.S.-sponsored Bay of Pigs invasion
that had ended in disaster about a year and a half before. Kennedy
refused. "This isn't the time," he told Sorensen.
"Besides, we want to tell that story ourselves."

Now, apparently, is the timeand two members of Kennedy's White House
staff are telling the story themselves.

One is Ted Sorensen, whose account forms the first installment in Look
magazine's serialization of...